Status Critically Endangered

Population Trend

Decreasing


Type

Mammal


Location(s)

Madagascar


Size

Head and body, 18 in; tail, 18 in


Weight

7 to 13 lbs


Threats

Slash-and-burn agriculture
Hunting for food
Illegal rum production (necessitating the planting of sugar cane fields and destructive utilization of sifaka food trees)




Where Joel Photographed the Diademed Sifaka
Lemuria Land
Nosy Be, Madagascar



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